Here’s a picture of my Pacific idyll:
Nothing fancy, really, but this image captures the feeling. I imagine this as the view as seen through a hummingbird’s eyes — an infinitesimal creature capable of stillness, yet always buzzing to hold their place in the air.

Anyhoo, as I prepare to re-enter civilization with a vengeance, this speech from a few days ago by “documentarian” (quotes necessary!) Michael Moore stirred my deepest bits. There is a fair bit of demagoguery here and, perhaps, a share of bad faith (the issue which is really most responsible for tearing our culture apart). But he gets to the emotional and intellectual gist of things in a way that I can get behind.